Antoine Hunter Join Luna Dance for Disability Awareness & Panel,

Hey everyone,  I know it's been a long time but I need to tell you. I'm doing great and a live.  I've just been busy doing more and more for my community. I want you sure this information with you.  Oct 15, 2016, a full day of Dance & Disability Awareness.  Theses wonderful people, who are leaders and have so much wisdom to share with you. Like I said, We have so much to share with you and if you're interested please join us!! Read below for more information.  A Full Day of Dance &  Disability  Awareness Join us on October 15th   Keeping the Bar High Discourse & Panel,    3-5 pm, Free Luna is honored to host a panel of experts to lead this critical conversation:  Judith Smith, founder of Axis Dance Company, has earned an international reputation in the field of physically integrated dance. Antoine Hunter, founder of Urban Jazz Dance is an award-winning African-American Deaf choreographer, dancer, instructor, & Deaf advocate. Emily A. Nusbaum,  assistant professor at USF is developing critical, qualitative research methods related to disability & experiences of post-secondary students who identify as disabled. Eric Kupers, Co-Artistic Director of Dandelion Dancetheater, & Associate Professor of Dance at CSU East Bay heads an inclusive interdisciplinary performance program & ensemble.    Dr. Rebecca Hawley,  for over 20 years has worked in the field of Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention/ Special Education. Her research focuses on historically under served populations & issues of equitable access.  Rebecca Prather, Speech and Language Therapist & Arts Integration Coach with the Larkspur Corte-Madera School District, specializes in Autism Spectrum Disorders & Alternative Augmentative Communication.  Dance & Disability Workshop 12-3 pm, $100 Learn more about teaching in public school preK-8 inclusion classrooms, special ed, community settings, and the Universal Design for learning guidelines.   Register today! October 15, 2016                                                  605 Addison Street 12-5 pm                                                                 Berkeley, CA 94710 For more info:   nwomack-freeman@lunadanceinstitute.org Business Name | Phone | E-mail | Website Copyright © 20XX. All Rights Reserved.

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Antoine Hunter at Line Ballet Master dance class

Master Classes with Renowned Artists  Antoine Hunter and Nhan Ho Join Antoine Hunter and Nhan Ho as they share their athletic and powerful contemporary styles in two very unique master classes.

Urban Jazz Master Class  with Antoine Hunter  Sunday, October 9, 2016 2-4pm  Sign Up!

Contemporary (Fusion) Master Class  with Nhan Ho Saturday, October 22, 2016 3-5pm  Sign Up!

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Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival 2016

Antoine Hunter's Urban Jazz Dance, in collaboration with Dance Mission Theater presents...

Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival 2016

Director and Founder: Mr. Antoine Hunter

Assistant Director: Zahna Simon

Mission: The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) artists make to our community.

This Year: 

We have Deaf Artists flying in from London, Turkey, Mexico and Washington DC to name a few.   There will be a diversity of Sign Languages including but not limited to Mexican Sign Language (LSM), British Sign Language (BSL) and Turkey Sign Language.  Plus don't miss Sound, light and vibration engineering provided by Bobby Cox of Six Second Monks, a local Deaf Art Collective.

Deaf USA Celebrities: 

Antoine Hunter, CJ Jones, and Fred Beam

The 4th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival:

Aug 12-14, 2016 

Dance Mission Theater 

3316 24th St, 

San Francisco, CA 94110

(Close to 24th and Mission Bart) 

Date and Time:

Fri, Aug 12th - 8pm

Sat, Aug 13th- 8pm

Sun, Aug 14th- 4pm ( There will be a different program for the family friendly matinee)

 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2561054 

Price:

$30 at Door  

$25 on line

$12 Youth (under 16)

Babies Free

Group Discount (Please Call)  (415) 863-9824

Special Event!!

Meet the Artists Brunch:

Saturday August 13th 10 am-1 pm

Deaf Community Center (DCC)

1550 San Leandro Blvd, San Leandro, CA 94577

Come to our special "Meet and the Greet" our local and Guest Deaf Artists plus famous Deaf Artworks by Guy Wonder will be presented for sale.  Don't miss this opportunity to catch Q&A with the Artists plus live interviews and a fabulous delicious brunch provided by our Local Bay Area Deaf Cheif Philip Smith Jr!!

Special Admission Price: $5 at the door if you show your Deaf Dance Festival Ticket

Workshops: We’re excited to provide Jazz, Hip-Hop, Ballet, ASL DANCE, and more different types of dance classes taught by International, Domestic and Local Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Hearing artists who sign fluently.  These workshops will be taught for both Youth and Adult participants in various locations including Richmond, Santa Cruz, Oakland, San Francisco, South Bay and other parts of the Bay Area...

Workshop Schedule:

Wednesday August 10th 6-10 pm

Deaf Community Center (DCC)

1550 San Leandro Blvd, San Leandro, CA 94577

6:30-8 pm Deaf Dance Academy from Istanbul, Turkey to present Belly Dance...

• Anatolian Folk Dance :

This dance is called "halay" in Turkish, belongs to East and Southern East side of Turkey. It is danced hand to hand and symbolizes unity and solidarity.

• Belly Dance: 

It is the esthetichs and rhythmic reflection of waist and hips with the arms to the body. The musics of the dance consist of Egypt and Turkish melodies. It mostly addresses to women participants.

Price: $5 (you are welcome to donate more and no one is turned away due to lack of funds)

8-10 pm Sign Dance Collective from London, United Kingdom to present:

Improvisation:

We have developed a way of improvising in dance which is very accessible.  It really can be for everyone...there is some contact involved but mainly it is about responding to impulse and variation in  using space and how the  the performer works in relation to the space and each other in an improvisation . We also pay a lot of attention to the use of the spine and the expression of the whole body . If there is space for wheelchair users we can include everyone .

Price: $5 (you are welcome to donate more and no one is turned away due to lack of funds)

Saturday August 13th 3:30-5 pm

Dance Mission Theater

3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

CJ Jones of Los Angeles, CA to present..

Creative Rhythms:

Creative rhythm game 

Demonstrate cajon drum 

Hands on cajon drum 

Create beat rhythm through cajon drum

Create ensemble body language beat based on creative rhythm 

Special Ensemble performance in the evening

Price: $5 (you are welcome to donate more and no one is turned away due to lack of funds)

Sunday August 14th, 12-2 pm

Dance Mission Theater

3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Antoine Hunter to teach Youth Workshops!  Youth of all ages welcome!

Suggested Donation: $5

No one is turned away for lack of funds!

If you are interested in becoming involved with the BADDF as either a performer or volunteer,  Please email Antoine Hunter at thegreatedancerah@gmail.com or Zahna Simon at zahnasimon@gmail.com

This project is made possible in part by support from the California Arts Council and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

Epiphany Productions is the fiscal sponsor for Urban Jazz Dance’s Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival. Visit www.epiphanydance.org.

Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company will be performing!! Green Show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.

Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company will be performing!!

Green Show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.

Friday July 22nd and Saturday July 23rd at 6:45 pm

Free admission located outside!!

Come support! We will be there with the whole company!

https://www.osfashland.org/artist-biographies/green-show/Urban-Jazz-Dance-Company.aspx

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Performing in the 2016 Green Show on Friday, July 22 and Saturday, July 23   

This is their first season at the OSF Green Show.

Deaf, artistic, RAW-energy, FREEDOM, expressed, athletic-bODY, UNCONTROLLABLE, PASSIONATE dancers.

Founded in 2007 by pioneering Deaf dancer/choreographer Antoine Hunter, Urban Jazz Dance Company (UJD) consists of a mix of professional Deaf and Hearing dancers. UJD's mission is to provide opportunities for deaf and other-abled artists to contribute to the arts and larger society, increasing awareness around deaf issues via the performing arts. Featuring the syncopation of urban jazz rhythms, the company values the importance of play and performance to connect cultures of all races, ages, abilities, and backgrounds. UJD performs all over the Bay Area and beyond, including festival such as; the Black Choreographers Festival, CubaCaribe Festival, Art and Soul Festival, and the Ethnic Dance Festival. Its programs thrill deaf and hearing audiences alike. UJD is also the producer of the annual Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival and views deafness as a human experience with its own values, principles, and cultural norms – not a disability.

A Bay Area native, director Antoine Hunter is an award-winning African-American Deaf and Hard of Hearing choreographer, dancer, dance instructor, actor, poet, and deaf advocate. The founder and artistic director of Urban Jazz Dance, Hunter has performed with Savage Jazz Dance Company, Nuba Dance Theater, Alayo Dance Company, Robert Moses’ KIN, Man Dance, Sins Invalid, Amara Tabor-Smith, Kim Epifano, Push Dance Company, Fly Away Productions, Joanna Haigood, and the Lorraine Hansberry Theater. He has performed throughout the Bay Area and the world including Cuba, Rome, and Paris. Hunter is a faculty member at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Shawl-Anderson, Youth in Arts and Dance-A-Vision. He is the founder of Iron Tri-Angel Urban Ballet in Richmond, was an instructor and rehearsal director for the Ross Dance Company, and dance captain for Expedia.com commercials. His awards include the 2011 National Dance Week Dancer's Choice Award, Margaret Jenkin's CHIME award, the 2009 VRS Award (the international organization on arts and disabilities), and the 2000 Bay Area Star Award. He has been featured in Dance Spirit Magazine and Dance Magazine, and is the former president of the Bay Area Black Deaf Advocate and Director-at-Large for the Northern California chapter of the California Association of the Deaf. He has been featured in Oakland North and is a representative for Purple Technologies, which sells deaf services and products. Mr. Hunter is an active supporter of DeafHope, an organization whose mission is to end domestic and sexual violence in deaf communities through empowerment, education, and services. He teaches dance and ASL in both hearing and deaf communities, and is the founder and artistic director of Urban Jazz Dance Company, and has been producing the Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival since 2013. His projects have been awarded funding by both CA$H Theater Bay Area and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

Deaf from birth, assistant director Zahna started her dance training with City Ballet School in San Francisco. She expanded her dance background when she was accepted to San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA) by training with Elvia Marta in Modern, Jazz, African, Ballet, Hip Hop, and Choreography, as well as participating in Alonzo King’s LINES Pre-Professional Summer Programs. Upon graduating from SOTA in 2003, Zahna attended UCI to double major in Chemistry and Dance. At UCI she trained and performed in over 20 performances in various dance styles, working with fellow peers, graduate students, and distinguished faculty such as Lisa Naugle, David Allan, and Donald McKayle. In 2008, Zahna received a BS in Chemistry and a BFA in Dance performance and moved to San Diego to pursue her Chemistry career as a Senior Research Associate at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. In San Diego, Zahna performed with the Mesa College Dance Company, CAC Repertory Dance Theatre (CACRDT), Bite Dance Company, Visionary Dance Theatre and in Jean Isaac’s Trolley Dances 2013. In August of 2014, she relocated to Bay Area and immediately jumped into ODC’s Next Moves intensive and the Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival. 

Antoine and Zahna will be joined by two other deaf dancers from Isreal, who excel in modern dance, and recently joined the company four months ago. 

Urban Jazz Dance Company on Community:As a former Bay Area Black Deaf Advocate President and Northern California Association of Deaf Director, my company uses the artistic talents of our company members to educate audiences about what going on in the world; empowering the deaf community, advocating for deaf rights, and working to eliminate discrimination, prejudice, and more. We also use dance as an expression of healing after abuse.We host shows at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont and Riverside, California, and perform and offer workshops in London, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Africa, and all over USA. We also host an annual show at the Bay Area Deaf International Dance Festival in San Francisco, Ca.

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Bay Area Deaf dance festival for the 3rd time!!

Welcome to 3rd annual of 

The Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival 

 The 2015 3rd annual  Bay Area Deaf (INTERNATIONAL)Dance Festival (BADDF) will celebrate the creative talents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing fine and performing artists in the disciplines of dance, music, painting, and handcrafted artisan wares.  It will include workshops in Deaf leadership development within the arts and will showcase the exciting results of collaborations between Child Of Deaf Adult (CODA),Hearing and Deaf artists.

In addition to San Francisco Deaf performers, there will be visiting Deaf Master and Emerging Artists from London, Mexico, Israel, AZ, NYC, DC, LA and more! Don't Miss Silent Auction from Deaf Painter! 

Where: 

ODC Theater 

3153 17th Street

San Francisco, Ca 

(415) 863-9824

Date and Time: 

Fri, Aug 28 - 8pm

Sat, Aug 29- 8pm

Sun, Aug 30- 4pm ( family matinee-different program)

WaWa and Dj Nicar  visiting Saturday sell shirt (Sunday performing)

Price: 

$30 at Door  

$25 on line

$12 Youth (under 10)

Group Discount (Please Call)  

$40 Lunch (2pm) and dance (Sunday Only) 

Silent silent auction every night

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